Panchkula: An opium smuggler was arrested here with over 700gm of opium, a day after Holi. He has been identified as ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per kilogram in 2024, a tenfold increase compared to two years prior, ...

The Maharashtra Police on Friday seized 66 opium plants, weighing four kilograms, illegally cultivated in a village in Pune district and arrested the landowner. The banned opium poppy crops worth ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

Aung Naing says poppy earns only a slightly higher profit than food crops like corn, bean curd and potatoes, which are also vulnerable to disease when it rains. Fresh opium was generally sold by ...